Double bodied girdle



DOUBLE BODIED GIRDLE Filed Sept. 11, 1957 INVENTOR ATTORNEY United States Patent 1! 2,888,018 DOUBLE BODIED GIRDLE Simon Grishman, Yonkers, N.Y., assignor to William Gluckin & Company, Inc., New York, N.Y., a corporation of New York Application September 11, 1957, Serial No. 683,254

3 Claims. (Cl. 128546) This invention relates to girdles. More particularly, the invention deals with what I term a double bodied girdle consisting of two tubular overlapping body portions, having curved lower ends to form, on the resulting garment, depending hip and leg engaging portions and upwardly contracted front and rear notch portions to provide a more perfect fit and retention of the girdle upon the body of a wearer.

Still more particularly, the invention deals with a girdle of the character described, wherein the garters for support of stockings are arranged so that one pair of garters supporting one stocking are on the inner body and the other pair of garters supporting the other stocking are on the outer body.

The novel features of the invention will be best understood from the following description, when taken together with the accompanying drawing, in which certain embodiments of the invention are disclosed and, in which, the separate parts are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views and, in which:

Fig. 1 is a front view diagrammatically showing a girdle made according to my invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional detail View of the upper edge portion of the girdle, as seen in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a partial side view of the girdle, with the body parts arranged flatly one upon the other to illustrate side stitchings employed to retain the inner and outer body portions of the girdle against relative movement one with respect to the other at the sides of the garments.

While girdles of the type and kind under consideration can be shaped and constructed of any type and kind of elastic material or elastic and other material, for purposes of illustrating one adaptation and use of my invention, I have diagrammatically shown in the accompanying drawings, without any finishings or the like which would normally be employed on edge portions of the garment, what I term an all-way stretch tubular fabric which is fashioned to form an outer body and an inner body 11.

In this connection, it will be apparent that the diagrammatic showing in Fig. 1 of the drawing illustrates the body portions lying flatly one upon the other; whereas, in the detail enlarged sectional view of Fig. 2, the section is taken through one dual wall portion only of the girdle, as though the girdle were in an extended use position. It will here be noted that the wall 10 is integral with or continuous with the body 11, as by the fold 12.

The lower end portion of each of the bodies 10 and 11 are reversely curved, as seen at 13 and 14, respectively, and viewing the garment from the front, as seen in Fig. l, the curved end 13 starts at a raised portion 15 on the left side to a lower portion 16 on the right side and, with the curved edge portion of the body 11, it extends from a raised portion 17 on the right side to a lower portion 18 on the left side. Thus, these curvatures at the front and back of the garment intersect in raised notches, one of which is indicated at 19 in Fig. 1 of the drawing.

With these curvatures 13 and 14, the garment, with the body portions laid flatly one upon the other, as partially seen in Fig. 3 of the drawing, will form an elliptical contour between the curved edges 13 and 14, in other words, the raised portion 15 and the downwardly extending portion 18 will have the widest separation centrally of the sides of the garment. The body portions 10 and 11, at the sides of the garment, are stitched, as diagram- 2 ,888,018 Ratented May 26, 1959 2 matically seen at 20, so as to retain the body parts 10 and 11 against relative movement one with respect to the other.

From the foregoing, it will be apparent that the leg engaging portion 21 of the body part 10 and the leg engaging portion 22 of the body part 11, between the intersections as at 19 and the raised portions, as at 15 and 17, are of single wall structure; whereas, the remainder of the garment is all of the double wall or double body structure defined by the body parts 10 and 11.

A pair of stocking engaging garters 23 are attached to front and rear walls of the portions 21 and a similar pair of garters 24 are correspondingly attached to the portion 22. It will, thus, be seen that stocking support is taken up solely through and separately by each of the bodies of the garment.

It will be apparent that the portions 21 and 22 will stretch down over the sides of the legs adjacent the hips and, at the same time, will pull downwardly upon the raised ends 15, 17 of the separate bodies 10 and 11; thus retaining said raised ends 15 and 17 firmly in position upon the upper outer sides of the legs.

It will also be apparent that the notches 19 provide free leg movement while maintaining the girdle in proper position upon the body of the wearer at all times.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A girdle of the character described, comprising an all-way stretch tubular fabric, folded centrally to form long inner and outer tubular bodies, means retaining said bodies against relative movement at opposed sides of the garment, said bodies having reversely curved lower edges, each body having, at a side of the garment, one short extending single wall leg engaging portion at the lower end thereof, and said leg engaging portion being materially less in length than the overall length of the tubular bodies.

2. A girdle of the character described, comprising an all-way stretch tubular fabric, folded centrally to form long inner and outer tubular bodies, means retaining said bodies against relative movement at opposed sides of the garment, said bodies having reversely curved lower edges, each body having, at a side of the garment, one short extending single wall leg engaging portion at the lower end thereof, said leg engaging portion being materially less in length than the overall length of the tubular bodies, and said leg engaging portions intersecting centrally of the fold and rear of the garment in a raised notch materially less in height than the overall height of the garment.

3. A girdle of the character described, comprising an all-way stretch tubular fabric, folded centrally to form long inner and outer overlying bodies, means extending vertically the full height of the sides of said bodies for retaining the same against relative movement, the lower edge portion of the front and rear of each body being reversely curved from one side portion to the other side portion thereof, said reversely curved lower edges of the bodies forming raised notches alined centrally of the front and rear portion of the garment, said notches being materially less in height than the overall height of the garment, said reversely curved lower ends of the bodies forming, on each body, an extending single wall leg engaging portion at the lower side portions of the girdle, and said leg engaging portions being materially less in length than the overall length of said bodies.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,009,011 Gribbon July 23, 1935 2,064,977 Kahn Dec. 22, .1936 2,758,311 Studler Aug. 14, 1956 2,805,421 Morano Sept. 10, 1957 

